Tag Archives: Golden Dawn

Two migrant workers were attacked in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, on Saturday. The Pakistani nationals were working on a farm when a “hit-squad” consisting of five men surrounded them hurling racist slurs, beat them with knuckled-dusters and stabbed them with knives. The brutally beaten men were heavily injured transferred to …

A Misdemeanors Court in Athens sentenced far-right Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris to six months imprisonment for inciting crime. The court found that a speech delivered by Kasidiaris was inciting others to commit crimes. Kasidiaris’s speech in Aspropyrgos in 2011, West Attica, was recorded and the video was uploaded on …

MP Nikos Michos left far-right Golden Dawn leaving the party with just 16 MPs in the Greek Parliament. Michos announced his withdrawal with a statement. he blamed leader Nikos Michaloliakos and complained that the party had been hijacked by enemies of Greece’s nationalist movement. Michos announced further that he would …

Clashes between anarchists and police broke out on Monday night during a march to commemorate Pavlos Fyssas, the rapper who was stabbed to death by a Golden Dawn member in Keratsini suburb of Piraeus on 18. September 2013. The anarchists hurled molotov cocktail bombs at police who responded with flash-bang …

August 17, 2017Greece, PoliticsComments Off on Harrowing coalition: US white supremacists ally with the Greek neo-nazis of Golden Dawn

A harrowing alliance. US white supremacists and Greek neo-nazis Golden Dawn. In an interview to network Vice, US neo-fascist Matthew Heimbach said that when it comes to his organization tactics “Primarily, we follow the European example of Golden Dawn.” He described the GD as one of “the vanguard nationalist organization …

Lawmakers of the coalition government left-wing SYRIZA and nationalists Independent Greeks adopted the omnibus bill with new austerity measures 4.9 billion euros for the years 2018-2021. prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said right after the voting he expects form creditors to commit to debt relief measures. All 153 government lawmakers voted …

The Plenary of the Greek Parliament decided on Wednesday to expel the parliamentary group of extreme right-wing Golden Dawn after the incident two days ago. The Golden Dawn group will not be able to participate in the debates on the omnibus bill containing the new package of austerity measures 2018-2021. …

An unprecedented incident took place in the Greek Parliament earlier on Monday. At least one Golden Dawn MP verbally and physically attacked the leader of the parliamentary group of New Democracy. The incident occurred in front of the cameras as the debate carried out at the economic parliamentary committee on …

April 21, 2017Greece, PoliticsComments Off on The Economic Scandals of the Greek Military Junta (21 April 1967)

21. April 1967: the Dark Day, when tanks rolled through the streets and the colonels imposed the dictatorship that lasted seven years. Fifty years have passed since that day, and the political narrative after 2012, i.e. when Golden Dawn started to rise, spread the fiction of the ‘economic miracle’ through …

Judges ordered the provisional arrest of the high-ranking Golden Dawn member accused to have been involved in the brutal beating of a 24-year-old student last Friday. The victim reportedly recognized the man ‘beyond any doubt’. The accused denies any involvement. The obviously angered 42-year-old owner of a cafeteria, left the …

A student of Fine Arts was heavily beaten and seriously injured by what it seems members of far right Golden Dawn. The attack occurred just hours after unknown assailants attacked a branch of the party in Athens on Friday morning. Walking on his way home from the university, the 24-year-old …

March 31, 2017Greece, PoliticsComments Off on Golden Dawn office in Athens attacked with sledgehammers

A group of seven people wearing hoods and helmets and holding sledgehammers attacked a branch office of extreme right Golden Dawn in Athens on Friday morning. The assailants smashed windows and threw paint at the party bookstore at the ground floor after failing to break through the front door of …

The Greek Parliament voted in favor of granting citizenship to descendants of Greek Jews, Holocaust survivors, on Friday. The voting took place after decades of delay. In 2011, the Greek government had voted in favor of granting citizenship to elderly Greek Jews who had survived the Holocaust. It is estimated …

The legal adventures of satirical Greek blogger “Elder Pastitsios” (Geron Pastitios) are over. The Three-Member Misdemeanors Court decided to trigger Article 8 of Law 4411/2016, which eliminates criminal liability for misdemeanors and minor offenses that were committed until 03.31.2016 and threatened with imprisonment up to two years. Philippos Loizos, aka …

February 14, 2017PoliticsComments Off on Golden Dawn trial: Riot police in courtroom to ease tension between supporters and Antifa members

Riot police stepped in the specially designed courtroom in Korydallos Prison in Athens to ease tension between Golden Dawn supporters and anti-authoritarians on Tuesday. Tension between the two groups sparked during the hearing of a witness in the ongoing trial against the Golden Dawn party. The situation went out of …

The scenery outside the Greek Parliament on Wednesday afternoon was a pandemonium of monks supporters consisting of nuns and monks, Football Club members as well as Golden Dawn supporters,supporters of an anti-protest demonstration. A pre-protest of the main protest was staged by a group of supporters monks at rebel Esphigmenou …

Greece’s state broadcaster ERT will no longer broadcast live speeches and events of Golden Dawn MPs. At the same time, a commission will be established with the purpose to examine whether recorded material with and of GD party officials is transmittable or not. Public television channel ERT announced on Monday …

A prosecutor in Athens was expected to examine on Friday a lawsuit filed by Golden Dawn MP Yiannis Lagos against popular lifestyle TV hostess Tatiana Stefanidou over her comments with reference to the incidents of Perama earlier in the week. Stefanidou was speaking about the incident in the elementary school …

A group of around twenty members of right-wing extremist Golden Dawn led by MP Yiannis Lagos raided an elementary school in Perama on Tuesday morning and bullied teachers and parents in an attempt to stop refugee children attending classes. The mob forced its way to 1. Elementary School Neo Iconio …

A group of people wearing hoods attacked and beaten Golden Dawn MP, Giorgos Germenis, in downtown of Maroussi, a suburb of Northern Athens, Saturday noon. Germenis was reportedly sitting together with a policeman and the policeman’s wife, when a group of 2o-30 people approached them. The attackers made use of …